Word: bring
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...about 100 such receptions a year. "I ask 22- to 27-year-olds how much rock 'n' roll they want, and often they say, 'None.' They want to do the fox-trot and the lindy." For some it may turn out to be a professional necessity; young executives bring their husbands or wives to business dinners and find that they are both out of step...
Video monitors, instant replay, cue cards -- it's just like the real thing. Except nobody hears it but you. A TV camera records your every utterance for videotape, and when your inning is up you get a cassette of your performance as well as two tickets to another game. Bring a buddy to do color commentary! Amaze your friends! Appall your mother! No holds are barred, no sentiments bleeped, no expletives deleted. The ump blows a close play at the plate? Give 'im hell...
...plaintiffs, the court based its decision on a law passed by Congress in 1866 to ensure the rights of emancipated slaves by granting them the same freedom to "make and enforce contracts" that white citizens had. That law, as interpreted by the court, allowed racial minorities to bring discrimination suits against private parties and, most important, to collect monetary damages...
...double back 50 miles to the Lajitas Trading Post, an old single-story adobe building with a wide porch, where storekeeper Bill Ivey is preparing for a dance that night that will bring Mexicans and Americans together as informally as is possible anywhere on the border. There are no Customs and Immigration formalities here; Mexicans simply cross the river in a battered aluminum rowboat to shop, have a beer, go to church or, a couple of times a year, step out at an Ivey dance. By 9 p.m. the beat is lively, and more than 100 people, nearly half from...
Long before I reach Arizona, I leave Highway I-10 and bump along ranch roads that bring the border back into view. In Columbus, N. Mex., which the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa raided in 1916, John Alcorn, 69, gestures in the direction of the border. "Had 16 teeth out and a new set of dentures made over in Palomas last week," he says, massaging his gums. "Would have cost me $2,000 in the U.S. I paid $600 over there, and the dentist did a damn good job." Health care is a relatively new economic trade-off, but the principles...